Yehezkiel 8:3

8:3 He stretched out the form ¹  of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind ²  lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem ³  by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue ⁴  which provokes to jealousy was located.

Yehezkiel 13:13

13:13 “‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: In my rage I will make a violent wind break out. In my anger there will be a deluge of rain and hailstones in destructive fury.

Yehezkiel 16:61

16:61 Then you will remember your conduct, and be ashamed when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not on account of my covenant with you.

Yehezkiel 17:12

17:12 “Say to the rebellious house of Israel: ⁵  ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ ⁶  Say: ‘See here, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem ⁷  and took her king and her officials prisoner and brought them to himself in Babylon.

Yehezkiel 20:41

20:41 When I bring you out from the nations and gather you from the lands where you are scattered, I will accept you along with your soothing aroma. I will display my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.

Yehezkiel 24:21

24:21 Say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Realize I am about to desecrate my sanctuary – the source of your confident pride, ⁸  the object in which your eyes delight, ⁹  and your life’s passion. ¹⁰  Your very own sons and daughters whom you have left behind will die ¹¹  by the sword.

Yehezkiel 27:27

27:27 Your wealth, products, and merchandise, your sailors and captains,

your ship’s carpenters, ¹²  your merchants,

and all your fighting men within you,

along with all your crew who are in you,

will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall.

Yehezkiel 28:16

28:16 In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence, ¹³  and you sinned;

so I defiled you and banished you ¹⁴  from the mountain of God –

the guardian cherub expelled you ¹⁵  from the midst of the stones of fire.

Yehezkiel 28:18

28:18 By the multitude of your iniquities, through the sinfulness of your trade,

you desecrated your sanctuaries.

So I drew fire out from within you;

it consumed you,

and I turned you to ashes on the earth

before the eyes of all who saw you.

Yehezkiel 29:18

29:18 “Son of man, King Nebuchadrezzar ¹⁶  of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. ¹⁷  Every head was rubbed bald and every shoulder rubbed bare; yet he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the work he carried out against it.

Yehezkiel 30:6

30:6 “‘This is what the Lord says:

Egypt’s supporters will fall;

her confident pride will crumble. ¹⁸ 

From Migdol to Syene ¹⁹  they will die by the sword within her,

declares the sovereign Lord.

Yehezkiel 31:15

31:15 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On the day it ²⁰  went down to Sheol I caused observers to lament. ²¹  I covered it with the deep and held back its rivers; its plentiful water was restrained. I clothed Lebanon in black for it, and all the trees of the field wilted because of it.

Yehezkiel 32:2

32:2 “Son of man, sing a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him:

“‘You were like a lion ²²  among the nations,

but you are a monster in the seas;

you thrash about in your streams,

stir up the water with your feet,

and muddy your ²³  streams.

Yehezkiel 38:13

38:13 Sheba and Dedan and the traders of Tarshish with all its young warriors ²⁴  will say to you, “Have you come to loot? Have you assembled your armies to plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to haul away a great amount of spoils?”’

Yehezkiel 38:20

38:20 The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the wild beasts, all the things that creep on the ground, and all people who live on the face of the earth will shake ²⁵  at my presence. The mountains will topple, the cliffs ²⁶  will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground.

Yehezkiel 40:21

40:21 Its alcoves, three on each side, and its jambs and porches had the same measurement as the first gate; 87½ feet ²⁷  long and 43¾ feet ²⁸  wide.

Yehezkiel 40:29

40:29 Its alcoves, its jambs, and its porches had the same dimensions as the others, and there were windows all around it and its porches; its length was 87½ feet ²⁹  and its width 43¾ feet. ³⁰ 

Yehezkiel 41:8

41:8 I saw that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full measuring stick ³¹  of 10½ feet ³²  high.

[8:3]  ¹ tn The Hebrew term is normally used as an architectural term in describing the pattern of the tabernacle or temple or a representation of it (see Exod 25:8; 1 Chr 28:11).

[8:3]  ² tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

[8:3]  ³ map For the location of Jerusalem see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:3]  ⁴ tn Or “image.”

[17:12]  ⁵ tn The words “of Israel” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation as a clarification of the referent.

[17:12]  sn The book of Ezekiel frequently refers to the Israelites as a rebellious house (Ezek 2:5, 6, 8; 3:9, 26-27; 12:2-3, 9, 25; 17:12; 24:3).

[17:12]  ⁶ sn The narrative description of this interpretation of the riddle is given in 2 Kgs 24:11-15.

[17:12]  ⁷ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[24:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “the pride of your strength” means “your strong pride.”

[24:21]  ⁹ sn Heb “the delight of your eyes.” Just as Ezekiel was deprived of his beloved wife (v. 16, the “desire” of his “eyes”) so the Lord would be forced to remove the object of his devotion, the temple, which symbolized his close relationship to his covenant people.

[24:21]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the object of compassion of your soul.” The accentuation in the traditional Hebrew text indicates that the descriptive phrases (“the source of your confident pride, the object in which your eyes delight, and your life’s passion”) modify the preceding “my sanctuary.”

[24:21]  ¹¹ tn Heb “fall.”

[27:27]  ¹² tn Heb “your repairers of damage.” See v. 9.

[28:16]  ¹³ tn Heb “they filled your midst with violence.”

[28:16]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “I defiled you.” The presence of the preposition “from” following the verb indicates that a verb of motion is implied as well. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:91.

[28:16]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and I expelled you, O guardian cherub.” The Hebrew text takes the verb as first person and understands “guardian cherub” as a vocative, in apposition to the pronominal suffix on the verb. However, if the emendation in verse 14a is accepted (see the note above), then one may follow the LXX here as well and emend the verb to a third person perfect. In this case the subject of the verb is the guardian cherub. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:91.

[29:18]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “Nebuchadrezzar” is a variant and more correct spelling of Nebuchadnezzar, as the Babylonian name Nabu-kudurri-usur has an “r” rather than an “n” (so also in v. 19).

[29:18]  ¹⁷ sn Nebuchadnezzar besieged Tyre from 585 to 571 b.c.

[29:18]  map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[30:6]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “come down.”

[30:6]  ¹⁹ sn Syene is known as Aswan today.

[31:15]  ²⁰ tn Or “he.”

[31:15]  ²¹ tn Heb “I caused lamentation.” D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:194-95) proposes an alternative root which would give the meaning “I gated back the waters,” i.e., shut off the water supply.

[32:2]  ²² tn The lion was a figure of royalty (Ezek 19:1-9).

[32:2]  ²³ tc The Hebrew reads “their streams”; the LXX reads “your streams.”

[38:13]  ²⁴ tn Heb “young lions.”

[38:20]  ²⁵ tn Or “tremble.”

[38:20]  ²⁶ tn The term occurs only here and in Song of Songs 2:14.

[40:21]  ²⁷ tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).

[40:21]  ²⁸ tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).

[40:29]  ²⁹ tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).

[40:29]  ³⁰ tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).

[41:8]  ³¹ tn Heb “reed.”

[41:8]  ³² tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).